Greek inspiration. Although uncommon, powers are sometimes abused which leads to police brutality, such as the 2007 Bronze Soldier riots. The site asks people to identify any participants in riots and the looting that ensued. [83] However, the crowd did not disperse and started committing acts of vandalism and rampant looting[84][85] of nearby shops and buildings. No major incidents were reported, but some drivers tried to block the traffic in the center of Tallinn by intentionally driving at a slow speed and excessively using their car horns.[102]. "The lines on the statue are because of bronze casting technology and from the time the statue was created," said the press representative of Estonian Ministry of Defence. According to the European Court of Human Rights, the lawful government of Estonia in 1940 was overthrown and Soviet rule was imposed by force. [90] As per September 2007, 13 mostly Estonian-speaking persons had been arrested by Estonian police on suspicion of beating but not stabbing[91] of Dmitri Ganin; all had been subsequently released pending the end of the investigation. Once logged in, you can add biography in the database Aftermath of the Bronze Night refers to the reactions and consequences of the Bronze Night, the controversy and riots in Estonia surrounding the 2007 relocation of the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn, the Soviet World War II memorial in Tallinn. 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However, President Toomas Hendrik Ilves vetoed the law, arguing that it did not comply with the constitution of Estonia (the only legal basis for a presidential veto under Estonian constitution). On 25 September 1944, the remains of two Soviet soldiers were buried in the centre of the Tõnismägi hill, with additional remains of Soviet soldiers reburied there in April 1945. [25] The government claimed that the location of the memorial at a busy intersection in Tallinn was not a proper resting place, which led to critics to accuse the government of pandering to Estonian nationalist groups. The display of Soviet flags and other Soviet symbols at these gatherings had offended many Estonians. The bodies of 8 soldiers exhumed from beneath the monument's former site in Tonismagi has been relocated with the monument, while the remains of four other soldiers were sent to Russia to be buried with their families. Claims regarding a fourth, Master Sergeant Stepan Hapikalo, are pending arrival of his relatives, currently living in Ukraine, to Estonia for DNA analysis. The Russian press sensationalized Ansip's comments in their headlines, presenting Ansip as disparaging Red Army veterans.[51]. Statue of a soviet red army soldier, Tallinn. [72], In the early morning of April 27, 2007, the Estonian government held an emergency meeting and at 3:40 a.m. local time, decided, upon advice from the Estonian Security Council, to relocate the monument immediately (as "the ground for violent acts"). League of Nations Treaty Series, 1934, No. [97][98], Calm was restored throughout the day and night of April 28 without further major incidents,[99] but police launched a campaign to take on "police assistance" volunteers, and by Sunday evening more than 700 persons had signed up and started training.[100]. The Baltic states must do some soul-searching about how best to confront Russia’s propaganda offensive. [7][8] An opening ceremony for the relocated statue was held on May 8, VE Day. [65], A tent structure was erected to shield the excavations from weather and from public view. [111] Paet had spoken to his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier who "promised speedy assistance from the European Union to normalise the situation around the Estonian embassy in Moscow." [92] According to police report, goods stolen from some of the vandalised stores were found in pockets of Mr. [citation needed] The law eliminated the need to negotiate with the municipal government for war grave related business—specifically, exhumation of the buried bodies and, if the corpses would be found, relocation of the monument which would then be considered a grave marker. The War Graves Protection Act's major result was to codify the international customs and practices regarding the handling of war graves (see above) into country-unspecific terms, and to extend unilateral protection to war graves not covered by mutual international protection treaties. As of the afternoon of 30 April, the statue without the stone structure had been placed at the Defence Forces Cemetery of Tallinn. [57] A veto override was never attempted and this bill did not become law. The view that Estonia's annexation by the USSR was legitimate is advanced by the official statements of the Russian Federation,[33] which claim that the USSR's presence in the Baltics was legal according to international law and that the Baltics could not be occupied because there was no declaration of war. TALLINN - An Estonian Court has acquitted four men over their suspected role in organizing the Bronze Soldier riots that tore through Tallinn last year. [69] After a few hours, around 1000 people, mostly Russian-speaking, had surrounded the police cordon and some from the group attempted to break through it. I recently completed one of the first domestically published MA theses on the Bronze Soldier riots, which took place in Tallinn, April 2007. Council of Europe recognizes human rights violations during Bronze Soldier riots 19 Apr, 2011 17:14 . The diary chronicled that soldiers were dispatched to contain the riots, and a number of young men were arrested and imprisoned. [27][28], In the early morning hours of 27 April 2007, after the first night's rioting, the government decided, at an emergency meeting, to dismantle the monument immediately, referring to security concerns. Unclaimed remains were reburied at the military cemetery, next to the relocated monument, on 3 July 2007. Born in 1897 in Zhilaya Kosa, Captain Ivan Serkov (Иван Степанович Серков) — chief of intelligence, 79th, Major Vasili Kuznetsov (Василий Иванович Кузнецов) — commander of 1222nd artillery regiment. The statue's toppling was in response to violence in Charlottesville, Va. A protester kicks the toppled statue of a Confederate soldier after it was … Show: Aeg Luubis Air: 29. apr 07 Language: Estonian/English (subtitled) Content: Short analysis, why riots occurred. [104], There were some voices that called for cabinet resignation among the Estonian public as well. Tallinn's unknown soldier, still embattled. Dmitri Linter is Russian civil servant. At one level, this is a story of Estonian police over-reaction to major disturbances on the streets of Tallinn, which will be found reproduced in various incidents throughout ECHR countries at various times of civil strife. [9][10] (Soviet Army veterans celebrate Victory Day a day later, on May 9.) Bronze Night is a name given to a series of riots which occurred in the Estonian city of Tallinn. [123], On January 5, 2009, the Harju County Court found not guilty (according to Postimees, under principle of in dubio pro reo, according to LICHR, "concluding that the evidence proved only one fact—that mass riots did take place in the downtown Tallinn on April 26–28, 2007") four men accused of organization of riots during Bronze Night riots. By midnight the riots had spread around the centre of Tallinn, with massive damage to property—a total number of 99 cases of vandalism, including cars that had been turned upside down, broken and looted shop windows, pillaged bars and kiosks. During June 2007 the stone structure was rebuilt. API STATUS: Working December 2020. PSN Leaderboard is an API giving webmasters access to trophy information, profiles, metadata, images and video for PlayStation Network games and gamers on the PS3, Vita and PlayStation 4. [113], Tõnismägi hill (the former site of the monument and of the now-empty burial site) being city property, the government's position is that it is the responsibility of Tallinn municipal government to decide what to do next with it. [126] The acquittal, however, was upheld.[127]. In April 2007, the Estonian government relocated the Bronze Soldier and, after their exhumation and identification, the remains of the Soviet soldiers, to the Defence Forces Cemetery of Tallinn. Vandals have damaged historic monuments around the country amid protests over the death of George Floyd in police custody. [129], In March 2013, the European Court of Human Rights decided that Estonian authorities had violated Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights (prohibition of torture, inhuman and degrading treatment) in respect of four people detained during the events. The Soviet Union occupied and subsequently annexed Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as Soviet republics in 1940. Restoration of the independence of the Baltic states, Human rights issues concerning arrests and use of force by the police. The unrest followed a decision by the Estonian government to speed up the removal of the 6-foot-tall statue known as the "Bronze Soldier" and exhume the remains of Soviet soldiers … This work began on May 23[78] and was estimated to be completed by the end of June. TALLINN - An Estonian Court has acquitted four men over their suspected role in organizing the Bronze Soldier riots that tore through Tallinn last year. Although uncommon, powers are sometimes abused which leads to police brutality, such as the 2007 Bronze Soldier riots. Originally intended as an official war memorial to Soviet soldiers who died fighting in World War II, an eternal flame was added in front of the monument in 1964. In the early morning of Apr. ], On February 15, 2007, Riigikogu approved the Law on Forbidden Structures by 46 votes to 44. [50], On April 24, 2007, in explaining the necessity for thorough investigation of the burials, Estonian PM Andrus Ansip related a number of urban legends (grave holds remains of executed looters or drunk Red Army soldiers run over by Red Army tank). Political differences over the interpretation of the events of the war symbolised by the monument had already led to a controversy between Estonia's community of polyethnic Russophone post-World War II immigrants and Estonians, as well as between Russia and Estonia. By Unknown. The Soviet liberation theme was changed when Estonia re-established independence in 1991, now stating "For those fallen in World War II"; at the same time, the flame was extinguished. Riot police run after Russian-speaking protestors during a demonstration against the removal of a bronze statue of a Red Army Soviet soldier in Tallinn April 27, 2007. Cemeteries that were destroyed by the authorities during the Soviet era in Estonia include Baltic German cemeteries established in 1774 Kopli cemetery, Mõigu cemetery and the oldest cemetery in Tallinn, from 16th century, Kalamaja cemetery. [79] For the time of the construction work, the statue was temporarily moved to a nearby location on the cemetery. [4] Disagreement over the appropriateness of the action led to mass protests and riots (accompanied by looting), lasting for two nights,[5][6] the worst in Estonia since the Soviet reoccupation in 1944. The protests of the defenders of the statue turned into riots with the police during the attempt to dismantle the memorial overnight. Born in 1908 in, Lieutenant Vasili Volkov (Василий Егорович Волков) — commander of mortar platoon (125th division). Nevertheless, the rioters went to the prison to free them, and they continued the destruction of the brothels. The so-called “April Events,” a good example of the radically different historical outlooks existing within the former Soviet Union, occurred when local and state authorities decided to relocate a popular Soviet WWII […] DNA profiles of all 12 were turned over to the embassy of the Russian Federation in Tallinn. Bronze Night. Exclusive helicopter views to the city. It was originally located in a small park (during the Soviet years called the Liberators' Square) on Tõnismägi in central Tallinn, above a small burial site of Soviet soldiers' remains, reburied in April 1945. Riot police run after Russian-speaking protestors during a demonstration against the removal of a bronze statue of a Red Army Soviet soldier in Tallinn April 27, 2007. At one level, this is a story of Estonian police over-reaction to major disturbances on the streets of Tallinn, which will be found reproduced in various incidents throughout ECHR countries at various times of civil strife. A meting held in Tallinn in commemoration of the Bronze Soldier relocation (that happened on April 26, 2007). In a judgment today, the European Court of Human Rights has ordered the Estonian government to pay roughly 50,000 euros in damages for the detention and alleged ill-treatment of the plaintiffs during the 2007 riots sparked by the relocation of the Bronze Soldier monument. [5] Estonian sources attributed the disruptions to youths consuming stolen alcohol. Following the reopening, the bronze headstones on the stone background and the protective barrier surrounding the memorial were removed. The Bronze Soldier monument, erected in the late 1940s as a memorial to Soviet soldiers, has been a source of controversy since the collapse of the USSR. Riots in Tallinn, bronze soldier topics, Russian acts towards the Estonia. [3], Amid political controversy, in April 2007 the Government of Estonia started final preparations for the relocation of the statue and reburial of the associated remains, according to the political mandate received from the previous elections (held in March 2007). [25] (See Demographics of Estonia.). The Bronze Soldier monument replaced a preceding wooden memorial — a one-metre-high, wooden pyramid, about 20 cm in diameter, of a plain blue color crowned by a red star — that had been blown up on the night of 8 May 1946[12] by two Estonian teenagers. [88] At about 2:30 a.m., reports came in that mass riots had ended and now the police were only looking for fugitives. Since 1903, a bronze war memorial dedicated to the soldiers of the Mexican-American, Spanish-American, and American-Indian wars had stood high on a stone pedestal in the Lone Fir cemetery in Portland. It was originally named "Monument to the Liberators of Tallinn"[3][4][5] (Estonian: Tallinna vabastajate monument,[6][7] Russian: Монумент освободителям Таллина, Monument osvoboditeljam Tallina[5]), was later titled to its current official name "Monument to the Fallen in the Second World War",[8] and is sometimes called Alyosha, or Tõnismäe monument after its old location. Riot police fired rubber bullets in a clash with hundreds of protesters in the capital yesterday as a second night of unrest broke out over the government's removal of a Soviet war monument. [48], Estonian journalist Paavo Kangur in an opinion piece suggested that the confrontations were intentionally provoked to increase the support of Union of Pro Patria and Res Publica and "Estonian Nazi sympathizers" having been manipulated by Russian FSB service. [104] While still in Russia, the chairman of the delegation had already made a declaration, asking Estonia's government (led by Andrus Ansip) to step down. The Bronze Night (Estonian: Pronksiöö or Pronksöö), also known as the April Unrest (Aprillirahutused) and April Events (Aprillisündmused) refer to the controversy and riots in Estonia surrounding the 2007 relocation of the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn, the Soviet World War II memorial in Tallinn.. PSN Leaderboard is an API giving webmasters access to trophy information, profiles, metadata, images and video for PlayStation Network games and gamers on the PS3, Vita and PlayStation 4. Every Victory Day (the anniversary of WWII), Russians would wave the Russian (or Soviet) flag around the Bronze Soldier. [31] As reported by Time Magazine in 1940: "Those who had failed to have their passports stamped for voting Estonia into the USSR were allowed to be shot in the back of the head by Soviet tribunals."[32]. Estonia Tallinn 26 27 28 aprill monument replacing estonian and russian people attacking police BRONZE SOLDIER RIOT esstonia Not all remains were reburied there, as relatives were given a chance to claim them, and several bodies were reburied in various locations in the former Soviet Union according to the wishes of the relatives. … The two girls, 14-year-old Aili Jürgenson and 15-year-old Ageeda Paavel destroyed it, in their own words, to avenge the Soviet destruction of war memorials to the Estonian War of Independence. In November 2007, the UN Committee Against Torture has considered Estonia's report and expressed concern over "allegations of brutality and excessive use of force by law enforcement personnel, especially with regard to the disturbances that occurred in Tallinn in April 2007, well documented by a detailed compilation of complaints". Bronze Night Bronze Night is a name given to a series of riots which occurred in the Estonian city of Tallinn. In all, some 1000 people were detained in two nights of rioting. — photos of protests and riots. April 26, 2008 - the defenders of the monument initiated the meeting. [108], The Russian State Duma delegation visited the new location of the statue, placed flowers and a wreath (a common symbol of remembrance of the dead in both Estonian and Northern Russian cultures) in front of the bronze soldier. The statue's toppling was in response to violence in Charlottesville, Va. A protester kicks the toppled statue of a Confederate soldier after it was pulled down in Durham, N.C. Monday, Aug. 14, 2017. Local veterans groups and many Russian-speakers view the monument as a tribute to those who liberated Europe from fascism, while many Estonians find it an offensive symbol of their nation's decades-long occupation by the Soviet Union. Most 20th-century battles on Estonian soil having been fought by Soviet (largely ethnically-Russian), German, Estonian armies and a formation of the Finnish volunteers under Estonian command, almost all war graves in Estonia not covered by mutual treaties or earlier domestic laws are those of the Red Army. [130], In 2011, the Committee for the Prevention of Torture (Council of Europe) has published its report on its 2007 visit to Estonia, stating that many of the persons detained by the police in connection with the April 2007 events in Tallinn were not granted all the fundamental safeguards (the right of those concerned to inform a close relative or another third party of their choice of their situation, the right of access to a lawyer, and the right of access to a doctor) from the outset of their detention: while many of the persons concerned were allowed to contact someone and to be assisted by a lawyer only when brought before a judge, a number of detained persons claimed that their requests to see a doctor whilst in police custody had been denied, even when they displayed visible injuries. [31][32] (Significantly, Red Army veterans celebrate Victory Day a day later, on 9 May.) [118], Eight of the exhumed remains—those unclaimed so far—were reburied at the military cemetery, next to the relocated monument, on July 3, 2007, in presence of the Estonian minister of defence, other officials, and dozens of diplomats, as well as various press representatives. The sculptor Enn Roos denied this and instead suggested that he used "a young worker who lived nearby", and there have been claims the worker he is referring to was a carpenter named Albert Johannes Adamson. During this era, Soviet authorities removed and obliterated numerous historical Estonian monuments. [17] On June 12, 1940, the order for a total military blockade on Estonia was given to the Soviet Baltic Fleet. [19] Most Estonians considered the Bronze Soldier a symbol of Soviet occupation and repression following World War II. Upload media Wikipedia: 59° 25′ 52.52″ N, 24° 44′ 24.05″ E. OpenStreetMap; Locator tool; Authority control Q2312213 Library of Congress authority ID: sh2009003792. The events caught international attention and led to a multitude of political reactions.[9]. The Tallinn Bronze Soldier riots – and why Russia was in Strasbourg. In the early morning hours of April 27, 2007, after the first night's rioting, the Government of Estonia decided, at an emergency meeting, to relocate the monument immediately, referring to security concerns. The Russian ambassador, having been invited to monitor the exhumation, or appoint an observer, officially declined the invitation. A decision by the government to remove a pro-Soviet war memorial — dubbed the Bronze Soldier — and a nearby war grave sparked two nights of unrest in … Unclaimed remains were reburied at the military cemetery, next to the relocated monument, on July 3, 2007.[11][12][13][14]. The last of the violent protesters were apparently taken away by a large passenger bus. controversy and riots in Estonia surrounding the 2007 relocation of the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn. 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